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One of the first American spies was a women during the Revolutionary War. To this day, her identity is not known and is referred to only as Agent 355. She was actually one of George Washington’s personal spies and completely vanished near the end of the war. No one knows if she died mysteriously or […]
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Have you ever come close to taking someone’s life, whether it was by accident, or it was deliberate?
Judging by these responses, you’d be surprised how often it actually happens.
Here are some pretty scary stories from AskReddit users.
“I operate heavy equipment(dozer excavators) these thing weigh over 30 tons on the light side for perspective. Anyways we had just started a brine pond project an had just hired some new laborers. They were as green as they come lol.
Anyways ,I used my two way radio to ask them to come over to where I was to tear down a set or barricades so I could proceed. One of the laborers literally ran right up beside my machine without making direct eye contact or radio contact(industry standard is to do so I can safe out the machine).
I was backing up at the time so I was watching behind my machine. When I turned around to go forward the laborer literally 2 inches from my tracks…Needless to say I’ve never pressed the engine decal pedal as fast as I did in that situation.. if I was new to the machine or inexperienced the guy would have been an empty tooth paste roll on the ground.”
“My wonderful husband had several brain tumors and died a horrible, painful death. After he died (shortly before our 25th anniversary), FIVE different people told me how “lucky” I was to be a widow and not divorced like them.”
“Had an abusive stepfather when I was a kid. A bit pedo-creepy – would do things like “accidentally” let his robe gap open with no underwear on, would start tickle fights as an excuse to get gropey, that sort of thing. That was nothing next to the beatings, gaslighting, manipulation and other varieties of psychological and physical torture. I hated him more than I’ve ever hated anyone in my life and one night I decided to try to make rat poison tea.
Turns out the rat poison we had wouldn’t dissolve in the tea. It’s for the best. He’s still an asshole but at least I’m not a murderer.
“Drunk student fell into the road in front of me. I swerved and wrote off two cars and injured my passenger (I was fine).
He didn’t even hang around to thank me, little wanker.”
“When I was fifteen, I carried my two-year-old cousin down a flight of stairs, when I tripped and we fell down three steps. She fell on the back of her head and I on top of her. It took a split second before she started crying and I thought she was dead.
Thankfully, she was fine, but I’m so glad she didn’t fell harder or over the handrail, or else she would have fallen at least three meters and would probably be dead.”
“Driving tired once, had a microsleep and woke up driving down the wrong side of the road. Fortunately it was late at night, no traffic around, but could easily have killed myself and my passenger.
Never driven tired since.”
“Step dad spit in my moms face after not having abused her in over 5 years. So I shoved him he said he was gonna come back and kill us and ran out the door.
So I followed picked him up from behind, carried him off the porch and slammed him headfirst onto the cement and then just beat the shit out of him while neighbors came out.
Got arrested, and got my first felony.”
“Nurse here. Unit was very very busy and I mentioned to a patient we needed to start her on antibiotics. Patient consented. I hung penicillin, only to find out our computer said she’s anaphylactic allergic to penicillin. Incredibly, she must have outgrown her childhood allergy.
Beat myself up for a long time for that near miss.
Won’t make that mistake again.”
“Grabbed a screwdriver in a desperate attempt to dislodge my ex husband from pinning/ strangling me.
Swung up and only put a hole in his shirt.
Really wish I hadn’t missed.”
“I volunteered at an orphanage in Thailand a couple of years ago. I had been gone for about a month and when I came back they told me about a guy who had been sneaking into the girls dormitory and raping some of them. The girls were so scared that they wouldn’t sleep. These girls were all between 1-12 years old.
All of the other staff were women and the guy would physically overpower them when they tried to stop him from getting in the dorm. I am a paramedic by profession so I have a bit of a personal respect and value for human life but this guy had crossed so many lines. I went to the local police and asked them for help and they told me to deal with it. I waited right inside the door of the girls dorm until about 2 AM with a large bamboo pole.
I didn’t want to kill him but honestly I didn’t have any problem if it came to that. As soon as I saw the door open I rushed him and knocked him over the porch railing. He had a machete but he dropped it when I tackled him. I jumped over the railing and started beating him as hard as I could. I am not a tiny guy and I also have combat training so I was quite effective.
He fought back but I had the size advantage and I was raging. After about 2 minutes I realized that I had broken my hand and quickly grabbed the bamboo pole and swung it around as he tried to get up and run away. It nailed him in the side of his head and sliced most of his right ear off. I swung again and it k Ickes him out. He ended up with a broken nose, left cheek, missing ear, dislocated right shoulder and broken left arm and hand. I broke all of the fingers in his left hand as well.
I stopped just short of killing him, but not because I didn’t want to. I knew that if I did kill him I would have to live with that and I didn’t want to give him that power. I already have a ton of guilt just from patients who have died in the field or in the ambulance, I couldn’t bear to kill someone in cold blood like that even if I was justified. I ended up walking away with just a broken right hand and some bruises and sprains. The girls got to sleep though. To this day he hasn’t been back.”
“Let me just start by saying my dad was extremely abusive. Mentally, physically and emotionally. He beat on my mother and I quite a bit. He also hunted a lot (deer mostly) and it was a big tradition in our family for the uncles and cousins to all go together.
My grandmother (mom’s mom) pulled me aside the day before opening day, and told me she would buy me a car (I was 15, almost 16 at the time) if I shot my dad out in the woods. She told me no one would ever know, and she would get me the best lawyer money could buy if it came to that. I agreed.
To this day, I wish I would have pulled the trigger. I was too scared and my conscious got the best of me. I know I would have gotten away with it, and it would have saved my family so much trouble down the road. He’s dead now, but I wish I could have been the one to do it.”
“Working at a fast food shop, my friend who was very allergic to peanuts asked for our shops version of the blizzard, I joked “you want that with peanut butter cup right? hahah” we both chuckled, he said no and asked for cookie dough.
For some unspeakable reason, no a single clue why, I made it with cookie dough AND peanut butter cups. Handed it to him without a second thought. He brought it back like a minute later and said he thinks he saw peanut butter cup in it, and sure enough, my dumb teenage ass put this mans literal death poison in his ice cream.
I apologized 100 times, He said it wasn’t a big deal. I lived with that anxiety causing thought for a while.”
“My mate got stabbed 8 times almost died, we caught the guy but just beat the shit out of him.
A lot of kicks to the head but we didn’t end up stabbing him like we planned to.”
“When I was 13 years old I was living in a group home. The boys in the group home were never allowed to go upstairs where the girls dorms were. I was the only girl who left each day for public school. Everyone else went to school in the basement.
Every day, as I would be the only one upstairs getting ready, this one guy snuck up the stairs and forced himself upon me. I told one of the house parents and she laughed at me.
After a month of this I snapped. I stood on top of my bed listening as his foot steps got closer. As soon as he walked into my room I lunged at him. I wrapped my hands around his throat.
As soon as he hit the ground everyone in the group home came running to see what that sound was. It took several people to pry my hands off that guy’s throat. I was arrested and originally charged with attempted murder. Luckily that kid confessed to raping me repeatedly. I was still charged with assault and battery though.
I spent 2 months in juvenile detention. I was also given 6 months of house arrest and 6 months of probation.”
“Walked in on my (now ex) wife having sex with another man. That man was a cop. His pants and gunbelt were right there on the floor. I came VERY close to shooting them both, but didn’t.
I never understood terms like “seeing red” or having an out of body experience until that moment.”
“When my daughter was seven weeks old, I was going out to the coffee shop around the block from my house. It was a rainy day, but had stopped briefly.
I put her in my Moby Wrap and went out. I went and got coffee and a sandwich. On my way back home, I went to step up onto the sidewalk. Instead my toe clipped the curb. I fell forward. My daughter was thrown out of the wrap and onto the sidewalk.
Luckily I was closer to the ground as I was falling as well, and the fall wasn’t as far as it could’ve been. She began to cry immediately and all I could do was sit on the wet sidewalk, rocking back and forth crying, as a woman was standing next to me saying, “oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god.”
I didn’t have my cell phone with me bc I was just running out. A kind gentleman let me use his and I called my husband who was working around the block. He was there in seconds.
We went to the emergency room. Got lots of tests done. Watched as my seven week old daughter was placed in a CT scan, I felt so helpless.
She was completely fine. It was the worst day of my life. I can still close my eyes and see her falling to the ground.
Although this experience was terrifying, it taught me some important lessons: kids are resilient, if they cry immediately they’re probably okay, if they move immediately they’re probably okay, you’re gonna eff things up as a parent so be easy on yourself.”
Life can be a game of inches sometimes, it’s very true.
What about you? Have you ever had any experiences like this?
Share them with us in the comments, please!
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It’s a tale you’ve heard a million times…a kid is running late and he or she makes up a ridiculous excuse to his parents or his teacher.
Most of the time these excuses are total bullshit, but sometimes the kiddos aren’t lying at all, really crazy things actually happened to them.
You just never know!
AskReddit users shared their stories.
“Hmmm, I had a student whose father had died and had not done any homework or prep for the geography class, from what I heard the teacher scolded him for not doing so but the student didn’t want to say anything (presumably sensitive issue) so his best friend shouted at the teacher “DONT YOU HAVE ANY SHAME, HIS FATHER DIED LAST NIGHT” and the teacher said “I don’t care”, there was an audible gasp and I was in the next room.
Needless to say that teacher is no longer employed here.”
“Not a student, but one of my Teaching Assistants when I ran a pre-school in West Philly… ‘sorry I missed yesterday, my friend shot my mom’. Naturally, I’m a little speechless… ‘oh no it’s ok, he was AIMING FOR SOMEONE ELSE’.”
“A guy in my college class missed class one day. The next day he came in with his eye covered up and medical paperwork in hand. Apparently he got pecked in the eye by a chicken.”
“Told me he got pulled over by the cops for wobbly driving on his bike and they thought he was drunk. Turned out he was just dodging all the slugs on the street.”
“I had a six year old turn up late to her lesson and blurt out “sorry I was late, I had to colour in a bunny!”
Seems fair.”
“MTV paid me $50 to fill my backpack with cement and carry it around for the day.” I accepted that excuse. Student later regretted it, as a replacement backpack and college textbooks far exceeded $50. But he got his moment of fame and I didn’t penalize him for his tardy. Gotta live a little.”
“I’m Pink”
A fair-skinned student (age 10) went with a friend to the Holi festival at a nearby Hindu temple where she was covered with red powder and dyed bright red from head to toe.
Her mother, another teacher at the school, had made her sit for hours in the bathtub to soak it off, but even after another round of early morning shower scrubbing, she arrived at school a pleasant shade of pink. (Technically, she wasn’t late, but she stayed in her mother’s classroom until the bell rang).”
“Not me, but one of my good friends:
She went to the Royal Military College of Canada, where they wear their uniforms and there are often tourists visiting the campus.
Apparently, it was completely normal to be waylaid by tourists looking to have their photos taken with students in uniform that all they had to say when they walked in late was “tourists” and the professors would let it slide.
She always wondered how many family photos she was actually in over her time spent there.”
“Taught a group of seniors first period. It was towards the end of the year. I had a class of around 30 and only 5 were there when the bell rang. Halfway through class the rest of them show up. They went out to Cracker Barrel for breakfast and brought me some back. All was forgiven.”
“She had to take her sister to school and drive her mom to rehab. She was always late to class because her mom just wanted to sleep in.
Problem was if the mom was late or did not go she would have violated her probation and gone to prison. I never marked her late. If she missed anything important she could come in at lunch or after school to make it up.”
“Flock of wild turkeys in the road. Not always school, but this happened more than once in my life.
For those of you who have never found yourselves in this situation: there is no way out of it. Wild turkeys will move when they damn well decide to do so, and only then.”
“Literally today, child missed my first hour class, notes said car accident on the way to school and would be coming late. Kid comes for 2nd hour, has pictures on his phone of the ROLLOVER accident! WTF, kid, go home. Rest. Take care of yourself.”
“A kid missed my first period class one morning, but was in school later that day. When I asked him why he hadn’t arrived in time for my course, he said his cow was birthing its calf that morning, so he’d picked being in the barn over English.
Made sense to me. His essays weren’t going to win any ribbons at the county fair, but his calf could.”
“When I was student teaching, I was late because there was bunch chickens in the middle of the road. They wouldn’t move at all. This is in the middle of a city of 200,000 people. Freaking chickens.
I finally get to school and profusely apologize to my mentor teacher and I told her why I was late thinking it sounded ridiculous. She said, “yeah, those chickens are fucking assholes, they surrounded my car in the McDonalds parking lot last year. Dont worry about.” “
Those were quite enjoyable, if I do say so myself.
Okay teachers, we want to hear from you!
Share more of these kinds of stories in the comments with us, please!
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I don’t like using the word “hate”, but for the purposes of this article, it’s necessary.
Even if we don’t want to admit it, we all have things in our lives that we do hate…or at least really dislike with a passion.
Here are responses from AskReddit users about what they HATE.
“People who lack self awareness.”
“Littering – especially motorists.”
“People that don’t take “no” for an answer.”
“People who sit on stairways.”
“People who immediately stop after getting off an escalator.”
“Ads within videos.”
“Those goddamn Michael Bloomberg ads
.”
“Watery, overcooked, tasteless vegetables. They are sad.”
“Glass on the beach.”
“Mosquitoes, pure evil concentrated into a tiny highly manuvrable package.”
“Celebrity worship.”
“Parents who neglect, abuse, harm, or just don’t love their children.”
“Willfully ignorant people.”
“The “It’s just a joke” defense when someone is an asshole.”
“People who say “it’s just my opinion” as a defense for being rude.”
“Airline baggage policies.”
“Misinformation.”
“The parents to one of my students.”
“People that eat with their mouths open by choice.”
“People who fucking text and drive.”
“Robocalls.”
“People who say you aren’t a real mom cause you had a C-section.”
“Westboro Baptist Church.”
“So-called ‘influencers’.”
There are definitely some interesting perspectives in those answers, don’t you agree?
Okay, now we want to hear from you. In the comments, tell us about the things that you really and truly hate.
Let’s see what’s bothering you!
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I think that working as a window washer has to be one of the more interesting (and dangerous) jobs a person can have.
Dangerous because sometimes you’re suspended way above the street and that wind tends to make them a little iffy. Interesting because you get paid to be a Peeping Tom and you get to observe all kinds of weird things that people do.
AskReddit users shared their crazy stories.
“Just a regular window cleaner here, not high rise. I was once going up my ladders to clean a bedroom window on the second floor at around 8am.
As i got to the top of the ladder i was confronted with a couple going for it at an angle which indicated that he was, shall we say, taking the road less travelled.”
“I washed windows for a cemetery during college and this still baffles me and I am a firm athiest but it was Sunday and the entire building was closed and locked, I was just washing the outside, there wasn’t a single car in the entire parking lot and every door was locked, all of the sudden I see a priest walk past a doorway and I thought hmm that’s strange maybe my mind is just playing tricks on me
about 5 minutes later I see him again for longer and I check all the doors and parking lots again and nothing/no one. It was one of the creepiest things I’ve ever seen. I also heard children laughing there was well, again on a day they were closed. I assume there was some logical explanation but it still gives me chills.”
“I was once punished by the head RA of my dorm for blatantly getting fucked up in the mini quad in front of my dorm. She told me to clean the entrance windows and pick up the trash along a sidewalk that was parallel to the first floor windows. I saw one of my friends hooking up with a girl from another college through the window…it was so…fucking awkward.
They were like fully extending their tongues out of their mouth and just licking each other’s tongues, without their lips touching. Oh, and his monitor had some tentacle porn on.”
“Had a strange house with two hot Hungarian girls. Anyway we did our thing cleaning the exterior windows. Half way through i climb up to a bathroom window and as soon as I look at the glass I see a Hungarian mans ass in a bathroom window. We make eye contact immediately (him staring at the mirror.)
I dip back down the ladder like lightening and move on. About 5 minutes later one of the women comes out and awkwardly says “that’ll be enough thank you” (only about half the house done makes no sense). I wholeheartedly agree, take the check and GTFO. Learned to always knock loudly when approaching bathroom windows from the outside.”
“Our company had all the libraries in a small county. At one of them I’m inside on a ladder when I see a guy with a shaved head. He had missed a small square of hair on the back. He’s wearing a yellow floral print dress. As he’s walking up the stairs to the entrance he steps up a step and then touches his toes to the step he just came from.
Does this all the way up until he’s on the top, touches his toes to the previous step and trips falling flat on his face. The librarian was shushing me for laughing. Nearly fell off the ladder.
That and the 85yo woman sitting naked in her bathroom.
Saw 2 fatties humping on some sleeping bags in the living room once. Devised it was lunch break time pretty quick.”
“One of my friends cleans windows part time while studying. He says it’s usual to see nudity and sex once in a while but he can’t forget one house where he refuses to go now.
He was 23 at that time a few years ago and got to a HUGE mansion along with coworkers. The (very obese) owner lived with his (also very obese) wife and the 2 of them had like a whole team of maids. When he arrived this one maid came out to welcome them and tell them they could happen to see the couple having sex but if they do they should just keep on working on the windows as the couple want the work done quickly.
This was awkward but ok. Now unfortunately my friend being the new guy was put to work on the couple’s bedroom’s side of the house. As he completes other windows he gets to the couple’s bedroom window. Now imagine this 190kg guy and even heavier wife (trying to) have sex. What was weird though was that 3 maids were standing besides the bed “helping” them. I.e helping the fat guy go in and out.
You could see the terror in the maids’ eyes of what they had chosen to do in their life once they realized my friend was seeing everything.
Pretty sure that fucked him up real bad.”
“On my first job as a window washer I went to this house and started washing windows and saw my Ex-girlfriend having sex with her new boyfriend.
And then she came outside and started yelling at me that “this is insane” and “window washers don’t come to people’s houses at 3 in the morning” and “I’m pretty sure they carry more than just Great Value Window Cleaner and a roll of paper towels.””
“Had one old lady (maybe 50-60-ish) in a dressing gown sat on her chair while on the phone looking directly at me. Nothing new there we get watched a lot but this old lady opened up her dressing gown, spread one of her legs on the arm of the chair and starts frigging off right in front of me.
While still chatting away on the phone too with a huge smile on her face. I was thinking maybe she was on a sex line or something and me being there was just a little extra thrill. She had a wicked grin on her face and was rubbing that p*ssy fast i remember that.”
“I used to work as a window washer in Seattle. We would do a big office building about once a month. One window we passed was an active porn scene. Video camera and lighting and everything. The thing was, everyone was dressed as clowns, and the guy running the projector looked exactly like Joe Pesci.
Not similar to Joe Pesci. Exactly like Joe Pesci. He started screaming at us to get the fuck away from their set, while waving a gun around. Then he shot one of the clowns in the face. We scurried a few floors away. I was right there with Joe. I don’t like clowns either.”
“When I was in college I worked at a window washing company that also did cleaning door and window frames. We were at a large mansion and one of my colleagues needed to go inside. He came back out and asked me to come in and help him. There was a reason he didn’t want to go alone.
Apparently he opened the wrong door (to the basement) and there was this altar with some weird stuff and a small skull on it (thought it was from a monkey or something). My boss later told me the house belonged to masons and that they would gather and have meetings there, although I don’t know if masons have altars and the likes. Washing the mansion got a bit weird after our find.”
“When I was a teenager I worked for a small town window washing company. It was mostly residential work at older peoples houses and apartments who couldn’t keep up with their house work.
This one house was owned by an elderly single woman who kept all sorts of mannequins around. Some were in weird places like in bedrooms silohetted by windows or behind large house plants.
I think she was just lonely… Or crazy.”
“My buddy was doing scaffolding repair after a particularly windy day on the gold coast and told us he saw a dude rocking the upper half of a leather body suit, like the gimp from Pulp Fiction, and nothing on his lower half.
He wasn’t seen and scurried on down…”
“I once saw a grown man jumping on his bed in his tighty whities. I wasn’t even shocked.
He just looked like he was having so much fun.”
“I do highrise window cleaning in Vancouver. Nothing exciting, mostly do residential buildings. Most people are at work. Normally its just cats or old asian women saying you didnt clean their window well enough. If you do come across somebody naked you just tend to ignore it and clean the window and move on. Each section takes less than a minute and most of the time you can only see your own reflection. (until you clean the window)
I have a coworker who did window cleaning in Australia for a long time and she had seen some wild stuff. More partying and drinking and drugs over there in the daytime.”
It actually sounds like a pretty fun job to me!
What do you think? Would you want to wash windows for work? Have you washed windows for work before?
Talk to us in the comments!
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This is pretty shocking. Here’s what’s even more shocking…. since women account for right around 50% of the population, this means a good portion of women are biased against their own sex.
Messed up, right?
While there are women in the highest leadership roles around the world, there are other places where people have proven again and again that they don’t think women are capable of holding the same power positions as men. Not only that, but the continued practice of valuing women less, be it in the workplace or at home, continues to be as pervasive as it is frustrating.
If you’re wondering why these issues are still mountains women have to climb in the year 2020, well, look no further than this recent report from the United Nations.
After gathering data from 75 countries that account for 80% of the world’s population, the Gender Social Norms Index has concluded that 91% of men and 86% of women worldwide hole at least one clear bias against the idea that men and women are equal.
Up to half of those surveyed believe that men make better political leaders, and over 40% still think men make better business executives. Close to 50% believe men have more right to jobs than women, especially when times are hard.
Also? 28% of people think that, in the right circumstances, it’s fine for a man to beat his wife.
Really?????? WTF?!?!
Even though girls and women have fought hard for rights and improved lives around the globe, this report highlights the truth: there’s still a long way to go as far as addressing bias in pretty much every aspect of life, from education and work to politics and healthcare.
We’re still nowhere close to equality, fact that not even women in the “civilized” USA can ignore.
Pedro Conceicao, head of the U.N. Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office, issued a statement on the matter:
“We have come a long way in recent decades to ensure that women have the same access to life’s basic needs as men. We have reached parity in primary school enrollment and reduced maternal mortality by 45 percent since the year 1990. But gender gaps are still all too obvious in other areas, particularly those that challenge power relations and are most influential in actually achieving true equality. Today, the fight about gender equality in a story of bias and prejudices.”
These numbers are averages, of course, and some countries – most notably Switzerland, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, and Belgium all scored significantly better than others on the Index.
Men in Chile, Australia, the US, and the Netherlands have made the most progress over the past 15 years while a “backlash” occurred in countries like Sweden, Germany, India, and Mexico that resulted in a growing increase in bias against women.”
The report concludes that gender equality in the workplace is at least two centuries away. Which is…a long time.
Says Raquel Lagunas, Gender Team Acting Director at the UNDP,
“We must act now to break through the barrier of bias and prejudices if we want to see progress at the speed and scale needed to achieve gender equality and the vision laid out in the Beijing Declaration over two decades ago and the Sustainable Development Goals.”
I know we can do it, ladies. We can fight like hell, like the women who came before us, so many our granddaughters won’t have to.
Because honestly, I’m not sure this poor, tired old earth will be around to witness anything in 200 years.
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Now that coronavirus is sweeping the globe, killing vulnerable people in numbers that are looking more and more concerning, people are realizing (among other things) how well we don’t regularly clean our stuff.
You know, stuff like that thing we put right next to our face about 100 times a day.
Now that you are thinking about how dirty the items in your hands might be, you’re probably also wondering what the best ways might be to go about making sure they’re not holding onto viruses and other ickiness. Look no further! Below are the best ways to make sure your phone is as clean as your hands (and face!).
You have two options when it comes to the kind of touchscreen phones most of us carry: liquid, like sprays and wipes, and UV light.
An NIH study found that both methods are effective at reducing aerobic bacterial colony count, but UV light is slightly more so.
The UV light rays that are used in cleaning and sanitizing are UV-C rays, short-wavelength, ultraviolet light that breaks apart germ DNA and leaving it unable to reproduce. UV-C light kills germs, and can even neutralize superbugs that are resistant to antibiotic treatment.
Liquid methods have their upsides, like being more portable and not needing to be charged, but you will need to research your particular device to make sure wipes aren’t going to damage your screen’s protective film.
The UV light device that performed best in the study is called the Flashbox Mini, “an easily transportable, small chamber designed for use in any healthcare, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, laboratory, or research setting.”
Read: it’s not cheap.
There are other devices that aren’t quite as fancy and effective, but that are aimed at consumers. Check out the PhoneSoap and the Verilux Cleanwave Portable Sanitizing Wand, and others like them.
Even if the hullabaloo over this latest virus ends up dying down and out (fingers crossed!), it would be nice to know you’re not sliding your fingers over a petri dish a hundred times a day, wouldn’t it?
I, for one, am totally in. How about you?
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Marie Kondo once said, “The objective of cleaning is not just to clean, but to feel happiness living within that environment.”
DON’T YOU WANT TO BE HAPPY?
Of course you do. So scroll through these eight instruments of happiness that will help you clean your home and, best of all, keep it clean.
So you don’t track in mud and street gunk into your sacred home spaces.
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Don’t just shut the door to the kids’ room. Show them how to put their toys away with this sturdy and colorful organizer.
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Happy life means happy teeth. Clean and sterilize your toothbrush while you sleep. It’s got room for toothbrushes for the whole fam.
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Comes with liners to get you started on your way to clean car nirvana.
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Why not let everyone in the family in on the joy of keeping a clean house with a chore chart that’s right in front of their noses on the refrigerator?
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When you’re toasting your clean home, you may slosh some wine. Don’t let that stain set. Get this remover with hundreds of 5-star ratings.
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Will easily reach all the corners of your tub so you can soak in clean bliss.
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Keeping your home clean is the key to happiness. When you get the whole family involved, it just keeps the fun going.
And, using these items will get you clean in less time than you think. Which will give you more time to push the furniture out of the way and have a family dance party.
Enjoy!
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As anyone who’s had insomnia knows, it seems to get harder to fall asleep the harder you try. And the longer this goes on, the more that the very concept of “falling asleep” seems like a myth. Meanwhile, some people knock out a few seconds after lying down.
Though it may seem effortless for these folks, a Reddit user asked people who fall asleep quickly to reveal their methods, and their answers are surprisingly helpful.
“Since I’m the high energy person in the relationship, I am moving and doing things all the time – get home from work, cooking, have dinner, work out, do some laundry, read before bed.
I’m pretty physically tired/drained by the time I hit the pillow. My husband runs at what seems to be a consistently lower energy level – like low enough that he needs a lot of downtime (usually in front of screens) to recharge, but high enough that he doesn’t sleep well.”
“Not thinking is the key. I had to train myself to completely clear my mind. Start by cutting inner monologues; imagine you were born deaf and think primarily in images. Then cut those and just focus on what you feel. The last step is to tune out those sensations. In the beginning, you will only be able to sustain it for a couple seconds, but you’ll be able to go longer with time. Eventually, it’ll be second nature.
In the beginning, my primary goal was to remove the stress of my life for a moment through meditation, but it ended up being a useful way to fall asleep. Also, I don’t remember the last time I’ve woken up in the middle of the night. The only downside is that I sleep like the dead and never dream. I just close my eyes as if to blink and when I open them back up, it’s morning (and my wife is pissed that I missed my alarm).”
“I’m so exhausted all the time. If I have no responsibilities to wake up for I’ll easily sleep 15-20 hours.
I’ll fall asleep at my desk, on the bus, on the toilet… as a kid I’d come home from school and just make it through the front door before falling asleep on the floor fully clothed with my backpack still on. I paid for a sight-seeing bus tour along the river Nile in Egypt and slept through most of it because I always sleep on car rides. I read books 3 pages at a time with lots of accidental naps in between.”
“For me it was a learned skill, thank you US Army.
They pushed me to work from reveille to taps, and only allowed for 5-6 hours of sleep, and I need 7-8. I wore an alarm watch. Any break during the day… “oh I have 25 minutes?” Set alarm watch, prop against a tree or lay down anywhere I could, BAM asleep.
My wife is still amazed at how I do it.”
“I use a meditation method I learned in a yoga class.
Lay flat on your back, take deep breaths through your nose. As you exhale mentally relax each muscle group starting with your face and working down to your toes. Try to imagine exhaling through your muscles and out through your toes. Imagine your body slowly melting into your bed. This usually takes about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
Next imagine as vividly as possible a river. It helps if you use one from memory. I personally use a combination of The River Wild movie and memories from a family trip to the Green River. Imagine yourself walking out to the middle of the river. Let yourself get lost in the flow around you. Try to imagine any stray thoughts as floating to you on the river. As you think of things, set them in the water and watch them float away.
This process without fail gets me to sleep within 10 minutes, if I am having trouble sleeping. But like Ralph Wiggum, sleep is where I am a viking.
Sorry for my abysmal Simpsons knowledge. I think I really just wanted Ralph to be an amazing genius who kills people in space and commits xenocide.”
“Best trick I’ve found when I don’t fall asleep easy is to put myself in a movie.
Like imagine yourself walking through the gates of Hogwarts. What happens next? All up to you and just let your imagination flow. Eventually you’ll fall asleep without realizing it.”
“I have to kinda gaze into the back of my eyelids without thinking…. like you know when you rub your eyes and all the different shapes and images and shit fly around? I just watch them with absolutely no thought and I’m out within 2-3 minutes.”
“KEEP! YOUR! ROOM! COLD!!!!
This one actually worked for me a bit more quickly because I had/have issues with nightmares (to the point where my husband literally can calm me down in his sleep), and I saw a major correlation between that and the heat of my room. I switched from a duvet that had me waking up drenched in sweat to a weighted blanket with a bamboo cover that manages to not trap my body heat. Apparently hot showers before bed and wearing warm socks can also help you cool down as your body tries to self-regulate (or something?)”
“Keep the bed, and as much as possible the bedroom, for two things – shagging and sleeping. Do NOTHING else in that damn bed!
Don’t look at devices, don’t read (talk about confusing your body!), don’t sit around talking to your SO (either shag them, or snuggle up and go to sleep with them). Half an hour before going to bed, drop the lights in the rest of the house, use lamps only if you can.”
“I’m a firefighter and my one partner says what he likes least about me is my ability to fall asleep so fast after returning from a call.
It helps to be physically tired. Much easier to fall asleep when your body has been engaged in physical activity during the day.
I try to lay perfectly still, and not allow myself to scratch my nose if it itches, for example. I just ignore the itch and next thing I know, it’s time to get up.
I just discovered that there are people with an inner monologue and this voice in their head allows them to have silent discussions and worry about decisions and whatnot. I don’t have this. I don’t have any voices talking to me.
My preference is also to listen to a documentary on YouTube or Netflix. I set my timer On my phone to stop playing after 20 mins and rarely stay awake till the end. I am very well versed on the first 10 minutes of wwii!
“I must have seen every single episode of Friends, Himym and BigBang a million times. It’s not totally silent but my mind doesn’t need to engage to follow a story. 5 minutes later I am drooling like a baby. My husband envy’s me so much. It’s gotten better for him, but so often he ends up watching something different because it gets boring. He doesn’t seem to understand that this is exactly the point of this exercise.”
“Dad of three. I sleep when I can because you never know when you’ll get a full 8 hours, or a fractured 2.5 hours. About 9pm my body just takes any opportunity it can to sleep, even if I’m on the couch and all the lights are on like last night.
It gets easier as they get older. My 7.5 year old sleeps like a rock unless he’s really sick.”
Some pretty good strategies in the mix, I think!
Do you have anything you do that makes you crash out super fast? Let us know in the comments!
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Michelangelo painted some of the most spectacular works of art in the world. He was also a sculpter, inventor, architect, chef, engineer and pretty much pursued any and all things that caught his interest.
But for a period of time, he had to hide from an angry Medici family in a secret room in Florence.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia
It was summer, 1530, when Michelangelo had to make himself scarce for a few months. For three months, he hid in a chamber under the Medici Chapels in the Basilica of San Lorenzo. He was 55 years old and was living in fear for his life because he supported the revolt that overthrew his patrons, the Medici family.
The room had a trapdoor, no windows and measured only two by seven meters. Yet, even in this stuffy place, Michelangelo was at work sketching on the walls with charcoal and chalk, possibly leaving behind a self-portrait. He also worked on studies for his ongoing projects that included a revision to David and Sistene Chapel scenes.
Photo Credit: Wikimedia
Eventually, the Medici family pardoned him. He resurfaced and was permitted to continue with their monuments. He even worked in the area right above the room in which he’d concealed himself.
Here’s another look at the room…
This Friday we are uncovering Michelangelo’s Secret Room in #Florence https://t.co/RGajow4IvY by @silvia_writer via @ItalyMagazine #artnews pic.twitter.com/Kkqw6DMn83
— Italy Magazine (@ItalyMagazine) March 6, 2020
In 1975, the chamber’s walls were stripped and it was only then that this part of Michelangelo’s life was discovered. Since then, art historians and their guests were able to get special permission to view the space and see the sketches. Plans, however, are in the works to open the former cell to the public. Hopefully, the first visitors can see how he spent his time down in his hiding spot later this year.
Photo Credit: Flickr/Allan Parsons
Michelangelo is such a huge figure and influence from the Renaissance. His time on the Earth ended four centuries ago and we are still finding out new things about his life and immense creativity.
Do you know any interesting facts about Michelangelo’s life? Leave them in the comments!
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